Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could, I suppose, react to this doubling-in-brash approach as Doctor Johnson did to a woman's preaching and a dog's walking on his hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." The point, however, is that such theatrical vaunting should not be done at all; in fact, it should be categorically proscribed by international...
...know many students have felt deeply, and spoken up strongly, on Viet Nam. Some of you will turn out to have been wrong. It is in the way you react to that moment, I suggest, that you will get a chance to take another stand-in behalf of a mature and civilized style of public life in America. How to be right is something of an art, too, and some of you will get a chance to show your skill at that, when the Viet Nam results are finally in. How to be right in ways that make...
...Middle East coverage makes me mad as hell. The Israelis have been harassed for years by Arab marauders; if they have occasionally hit back in desperation, that hardly equates them with those who sneak in at night to plant bombs and kill whomever they can. Our own country has reacted the same many times-against Indians, Mexicans and Tripoli pirates-and we react in similar ways today when our interests are threatened. And tell me, please, how would you react if somebody kept hitting you every time your back was turned...
...clear yesterday how boards of trustees at other Boston area hospitals would react to the Council's plan. No board is forced to follow the council's recommendations but Boston hospitals have an informal agreement to maintain reughly equal wage levels...
...than a similar take-over in a small weak country whose resources could scarcely play an important part in the power balance, regardless of whose grounds they were. We were at liberty to concentrate on the Communist threat in areas that seemed to us important, to ignore it, or react less decisively, in areas that...